It was a full house at last weeks hearing of the
San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. The meeting started with Public Comment. Regulars Aaron Goodman spoke about
Parkmerced, and Peter Warfield about
Park Branch Library. Also Alice Carey spoke about notification; seems there was a mix-up at the last meeting that I missed. The Staff Report included a discussion about the Appleton & Wolfard libraries and public comment for this issue lasted at least an hour. President Chase rearranged the agenda so that they could hear the letter from
City Librarian Luis Herrera, Item 6. The outcome of the combined items was that the Commission decided to calendar a discussion on whether or not they should initiate a discontiguous district nomination of the Appleton & Wolfard libraries. Because these items took so long the agenda was again rearranged and the Consent Calendar was heard next. Of the four projects on the Consent Calendar one was removed for full hearing by Alan Martinez. The vote was unanimous approving the other three projects including, a new storefront for a building in the South End Historic District, a new deck for a property in Alamo Square Historic District and the new mult-unit residential building in the South End Historic District from last hearing. Pulled from the Consent Calendar, the project to put solar panels on
City Hall was heard. A condition had been added at the last minute to remove the kiosks from the project. The project was approved unanimously. Item 12 followed which was a discussion of the integration of the survey material into the Market and Octavia Plan. I left before this item was finished.
